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David Howells f3ddee8dc4 afs: Fix directory handling
AFS directories are structured blobs that are downloaded just like files
and then parsed by the lookup and readdir code and, as such, are currently
handled in the pagecache like any other file, with the entire directory
content being thrown away each time the directory changes.

However, since the blob is a known structure and since the data version
counter on a directory increases by exactly one for each change committed
to that directory, we can actually edit the directory locally rather than
fetching it from the server after each locally-induced change.

What we can't do, though, is mix data from the server and data from the
client since the server is technically at liberty to rearrange or compress
a directory if it sees fit, provided it updates the data version number
when it does so and breaks the callback (ie. sends a notification).

Further, lookup with lookup-ahead, readdir and, when it arrives, local
editing are likely want to scan the whole of a directory.

So directory handling needs to be improved to maintain the coherency of the
directory blob prior to permitting local directory editing.

To this end:

 (1) If any directory page gets discarded, invalidate and reread the entire
     directory.

 (2) If readpage notes that if when it fetches a single page that the
     version number has changed, the entire directory is flagged for
     invalidation.

 (3) Read as much of the directory in one go as we can.

Note that this removes local caching of directories in fscache for the
moment as we can't pass the pages to fscache_read_or_alloc_pages() since
page->lru is in use by the LRU.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-04-09 21:54:48 +01:00
arch ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
block for-4.17/block-20180402 2018-04-05 14:27:02 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-04-04 17:11:08 -07:00
Documentation afs: Implement @sys substitution handling 2018-04-09 21:12:31 +01:00
drivers ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs afs: Fix directory handling 2018-04-09 21:54:48 +01:00
include afs: Prospectively look up extra files when doing a single lookup 2018-04-09 21:12:31 +01:00
init This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.17 kernel cycle: 2018-04-05 09:51:41 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-04-07 11:11:41 -07:00
lib powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm powerpc updates for 4.17 2018-04-07 12:08:19 -07:00
net selinux/stable-4.17 PR 20180403 2018-04-06 15:39:26 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-06 19:44:27 -07:00
scripts Leaking-addresses patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-07 11:56:33 -07:00
security selinux: fix missing dput() before selinuxfs unmount 2018-04-09 11:52:56 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
tools ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for v4.17 2018-03-28 16:09:09 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: move include/config/ksym/* to include/ksym/* 2018-03-26 02:01:23 +09:00
.mailmap Merge candidates for 4.17 merge window 2018-04-06 17:35:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.